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Radical Mass Media Criticism The history of ideas, or more specifically RMMCin context, attempts to disrupt or uproot the origin of taken-for-granted conceptual frameworks that permeate our lives. It does this by arguing that history is partly a creation of media, including media discourse and media practitioners, which dominate the manufacturing of historical understanding. In essence the media are pivotal, a powerful and influential contender in the production of hegemonic meaning; a social meaning that RMMCattempts to subvert. The genealogical analysis concerning RMMC is not one that only focuses upon the historical text, but one that posits that a historical-contemporary dialectic is manufactured on limitations of understanding. To put it another way, that which has become naturalised is a product not of truth but of selected category; an element of human expression. From Radical Mass Media Criticism: An Introduction David Berry